Learn Latin with Cicero On Duties 1

What is life about? How should we best live? What makes for a human existence worthy of admiration? How do we fulfill the promise of our special gifts and callings as human beings? Where do we find “the honorable” and what are the obligations that are bound up with it? Which of these should we most want to cultivate for ourselves and for the next generation? How can we do that? These are deep and perennial questions. Near the end of his life, the Roman Marcus Tullius Cicero (106—43 BC) gathered some of the weightiest thoughts he had about these central issues of human existence and attempted to sketch out his understanding in a sweeping, many-sided synthesis. The content of this work is important material that should be included in all humanistic curricula along with Plato’s Republic , Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics , Augustine’s Confessions , Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations , and the like. This 2024 thoroughly revised edition gives you something you won’t find elsewhere: visual help in learning how to understand Latin as the sentences unfold. Spend less time wondering about what the words mean and more time understanding them. You can now use the original text as a phrasebook that lets you “”divide and conquer”” the language. The principle is simple: we grasp shorter units much more easily than we grasp long ones. The underlying principle of the Acceleration Reader series is this: Only if readers learn to register the meanings and functions of the parts of a sentence bit-by-bit in its unfolding will they have the satisfactions that accompany the act of smooth and fluent reading. An original translation is provided pari passu (bit by bit). Students are thus saved much time spent consulting dictionaries: they get a sense of the meanings of words on the spot if they need to. Word count: 54,000+ total. —- ISBN: 9798327480155